call or visit us online. we're ready to help. >>> it could be yet another reason americans re-elected president obama. a new gallup poll just before the election shows more americans feeling better about their lives than they did about four years ago. about 51% say they are tlooifg. 45% say they are struggling. now when president obama took office more th53% of americans said they were struggling. 42% said they were thriving. >>> big three in today's topics, aftermath who holds the cards and best week worst week. national reporter for the atlantic molly ball, democratic strategist morris reid and republican strategist and msnbc contributor susan dell perce pe >> molly, you've travel add lot with the ram any campaign. from everything i've read they were shocked at the loss. how did they misread the electorate so much? >> they did think from the polling to just sort of believing their own spin there was this sort of silent majority out there. they really thought that america was a different place than it turned